John Fahy (priest)

Lia Fáil made national headlines in the early 1960s after some members were arrested for rural agitation but later escaped jail and went on the run, and Fahy aided and abetted them.

He was one of a number of sons of John Fahy, a strong farmer and fervent member of the Irish National Land League, and Honoria Davock.

He supported Terence MacSwiney's fatal hunger strike, and traveled back to Ireland to attend the funeral of Father Michael Griffin in November 1920.

In 1945, he was transferred to Lusmagh, County Offaly, where in the late 1950s, he was involved in rural agitation under the banner of Lia Fáil.

Similarly, his superiors in the Catholic Church took a dim view of his political agenda and moved him to the parish of Abbey in Galway to quell him.